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Director Francis Ford Coppola has been in production on his epic feature film Megalopolis for a few months now, and a new report has emerged claiming the production is a complete mess and “absolute madness.”

Coppola had been trying to make this film since the early 1980s, and was so passionate about it that he decided to self-finance the $120 million to make it. But, with the way things are going, it looks like that budget is going full steam ahead!

The film is in the middle of shooting, and according to The Hollywood Reporter, Coppola has fired the entire visual effects department before the holiday and the film’s production designer. Beth Mickle and supervise the art director David Scott they also left the department, meaning the film’s entire art department is gone. This is an effects-heavy film, so you need that department! It’s just crazy that it’s completely gone! Sources say Coppola is hiring new staff this week.

The Art Directors Guild said in a statement, “The Art Directors Guild supports all art departments to ensure adequate staffing and scheduling and is currently reviewing the situation with Megalopolis to determine next steps. We have no further comments at this point.” .

A talent rep whose client was fired says the firing was a blessing in disguise. The source said, “It was absolute madness, being on set.”

As for the exorbitant costs of finishing the film, one production executive says, “There’s no good answer here. [Coppola] will spend a lot more money than he intended. You can imagine how much she has already invested. It would be a very bitter pill not to finish it.

This project has been a passion project for Coppola for almost 40 years, it would be crazy if he didn’t finish it. But $120 million is a lot of money for a movie, especially when he’s financing it himself! I can’t help but think that Coppola has reached out to his filmmaking friends George Luke And Steven Spielberg and perhaps others for advice and help.

In the end, I hope the movie is great and it was worth it.

The film tells the story of an architect who dreams of a utopian version of New York in the near future and his battle with the conservative mayor, who has other ideas about the city. Contained within the epic are a myriad of storylines and characters. “The fate of Rome haunts a modern world unable to solve its social problems in this epic story of political ambition.”

Coppola also described the film as “a love story. A woman is torn between loyalties to two men. But not just two men. Every man comes with a philosophical principle. One of hers is her father who raised her, who taught her Latin in her womb and is devoted to a much more classical view of society, the kind of view of Marcus Aurelius. The other, who is the lover, is the father’s enemy but is dedicated to a much more progressive ‘Let’s jump into the future, let’s jump over all this rubbish that has contaminated humanity for 10,000 years. We discover what we really are, that we are an enlightened, friendly, joyful species.’”

Coppola has also previously said of the film:

“What would make me really happy? It’s not winning many Oscars because I already have many and maybe more than I deserve. And it’s not like I make a lot of money, although I think over time I’m going to make a lot because anything that people keep looking at and finding new things, it makes money. So somewhere along the line, long after I’m gone, all I want is for them to talk about it [Megalopolis] and the society we live in is the only one available to us? How can we improve it? Education, mental health? What the film is really proposing is that utopia is not a place. Is how can we improve everything? Every year, come up with two, three or four ideas that make it better.”

“I’d smile in my grave if I thought something like this happened, because people talk about what movies really mean if you give them something. If you encouraged people to discuss marriage, education, health, justice, opportunity, freedom and all of that wonderful things that human beings have conceived. And ask yourself the question, how can we make it even better? That would be great. Because I bet they would do it better if they had that conversation.”

The film is the protagonist Adam Driver, Shia LaBeouf, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Aubrey Plaza, Jason Schwartzmann, Laurence Fishburne, Grace Vander Waal, Kathryn Hunter, James Remar, Thalia Shire, Dustin Hoffmann, Cloe Fineman (Saturday night live), Isabelle Kusman (Licorice pizza), DB Sweeney (Fire in the sky), and newcomer Bailey Ives.